{"id":651060,"date":"2026-03-29T19:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/651060\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T19:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:40:21","slug":"brewers-manager-makes-bold-prediction-about-the-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/651060\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers Manager Makes Bold Prediction About the White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first two games of the 2026 MLB season have been a rough go for the Chicago White Sox<\/a>, who have been outscored by the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> 20\u20133.<\/p>\n

Both White Sox starting pitchers have been knocked around, and outside of strong offensive showings from Chase Meidroth<\/a> and Munetaka Murakami\u2014who became the first White Sox player to hit a home run in each of his first two MLB games\u2014Chicago hasn\u2019t had much to show on the offensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n

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There have been critiques of Will Venable\u2019s lineups, and on Saturday night in Milwaukee, there were serious concerns about Chicago\u2019s defensive positioning and overall execution. They haven\u2019t just looked like the less talented team, they\u2019ve also looked like the less prepared one. While it\u2019s only a two-game sample size, the gap between the White Sox and the Brewers couldn\u2019t feel much wider.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a discouraging reality for White Sox fans hoping to see real signs of progress in 2026. Not that it can\u2019t happen\u2014again, we\u2019re only two games into the regular season\u2014but these first two games haven\u2019t done much to inspire confidence that things will be meaningfully better than what fans have seen over the past few years.<\/p>\n

But Brewers manager Pat Murphy<\/a>, a two-time Manager of the Year in his first two seasons with Milwaukee, would seem to disagree.<\/p>\n

Murphy made a bold claim about the White Sox following Saturday night\u2019s game, and it might just be the only silver lining fans take away from opening weekend.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m so proud of our guys. It\u2019s not easy, the ups and downs and the emotions of the game. And there\u2019s some talent on the other side. Mark my words right now: That Chicago White Sox team will be something to be reckoned with in that division,\u201d Murphy said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maybe that\u2019s just a manager giving his team credit for beating up on a bottom feeder. If the White Sox are good, it makes these Brewers wins look even better.<\/p>\n

But if you\u2019re a White Sox fan searching for some hope right now, Pat Murphy is someone who knows what a winning team looks like\u2014and he clearly sees something in this White Sox group that gives him enough confidence to make a statement like that.<\/p>\n

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The AL Central hasn\u2019t been known as the strongest division in recent years, but that could begin to change in 2026. The Detroit Tigers look like legitimate contenders once again, and a strong pitching staff gives the Kansas City Royals a real chance to compete for a playoff spot.<\/p>\n

If the White Sox truly are \u201csomething to be reckoned with\u201d in the AL Central, 2026 would be a major step forward for the organization and its fan base.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope Pat Murphy is right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first two games of the 2026 MLB season have been a rough go for the Chicago White…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,1001,138,49,2561,53,59,4,6077,57061,396,2562,998],"class_list":["post-651060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-baseball","tag-chase-meidroth","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-pat-murphy","tag-the-kansas-city-royals","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox","tag-will-venable"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}